Rewriting the history of madness: studies in Foucault's

examinations in Padua and elsewhere. The German universities followed slavishly their Italian models. Eberhard Knab, active in Heidelberg from 1451 to 1480, was not alone in leaving memorials of his teaching in the form of Quaestiones (see the Verfasserlexikon, s.n.), and the orations delivered by Melanchthon's pupils in the Wittenberg of the 1540s and 1550s, printed among his collected works, would not have been out of place two hundred years earlier in Siena. True, they cite more authorities, and use a little less scholastic logic than their medieval precursors, but they frequently debate the same questions and use the same arguments. In short, while Dr Lawn has again drawn attention to an unfashionable area of medieval teaching, he has barely scratched the surface. He has raised interesting questions, and made some suggestive connections, but much still remains to be done before one can see exactly what role was played in the medieval and renaissance university by the Quaestio disputata.